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Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT  | The Electoral Commission Chairman, Justice Simon Byabakama Mugenyi, has said although his Commission was fully in charge of organizing last month’s elections, he had no power to intervene when campaign agents of National Unity Platform-NUP former presidential candidates were arrested. In his response to the …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT  |  The Electoral Commission and the Attorney General have asked the Supreme Court to dismiss the election petition filed by former Presidential Candidate for the National Unity Platform-NUP, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu for filing it outside the mandatory 15 days after the declaration of results. In their …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT  |  The Electoral Commission results from the Presidential Election held on January 14, show that President Yoweri Museveni scored zero at two polling stations in Tororo district.  The stations include St. Kizito Primary School (N-Z) situated in Amagoro B Ward Tororo Municipality and Nyambulie situated in …

Mubende, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Delegates participating in the Central Youth parliamentary elections have rejected the partial allowance of Shillings 150,000 paid out by the Electoral Commission to facilitate their participation in the polls, saying they want full payment of Shillings 1 million. More than 1250 delegates drawn from 27 …

Kiruhura, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  President Museveni scored 100 percent at 348 polling stations in the Kiruhura, Kazo and Isingiro districts, according to analysis of presidential election data released by the Electoral Commission data yesterday. At these polling stations, he polled 138,063 votes. The president scored 100 percent at 143 …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Ugandans could have surrendered their data privacy to unknown people over the last two weeks since the government shut down social media access.  The shutdown of the internet on the eve of the presidential and parliamentary elections forced Ugandans to find ways of communicating, and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Elections for the workers LC V representatives in Masaka city were cancelled on Wednesday due to inadequate ballot papers. The elections that were being held at Masaka recreation grounds were called off after it emerged that the Electoral Commission had delivered 200 ballot papers instead …

Bundibugyo, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | A total of 39,416 registered voters in Bundibugyo District did not take part in the presidential election exercise this year. The area has 113,472 registered voters across the 298 polling stations in the sub-counties of Bwamba and Bughendera. According to the Declaration of Results forms …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A week after the presidential election and six days after declaring incumbent Yoweri Kaguta Museveni as the winner, the Electoral Commission (EC) has not published the results. This is in stark contrast with the 2016 presidential election results which were published two days after declaring …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A standoff has ensued between Electoral Commission and 430 National Youth delegates in Arua over money. The delegates from all corners of Uganda converged at Mvara Secondary School in Arua city from yesterday to elect their national representatives to the 11th Parliament. However, the election …